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Subject: Gravy Train Derails at MSNBC: Top Anchors Face Huge Pay Cut
From: John Smyth
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Subject: Gravy Train Derails at MSNBC: Top Anchors Face Huge Pay Cut
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Good.
Maybe they will all quit and allow MSNBC to at least attempt to recover
the trust of the viewers.
Take a look at how much some of these morons make.

'Gravy Train Derails at MSNBC: Top Anchors Face Huge Pay Cut After
Comcast Severs Ties With Left-Wing Network'

<https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4279966/posts>

<https://freebeacon.com/author/stiles/media/gravy-train-derails-at-msnbc/>

'Comcast is finally cutting ties with MSNBC, the media conglomerate
announced Wednesday. That's bad news for the exorbitantly compensated
and increasingly unhinged personalities who call the left-wing network
home (for now). MSNBC and other declining television assets—but not the
reality TV powerhouse Bravo—will be spun off into a new publicly traded
company by the end of next year. That means MSNBC will soon be divorced
from the ostensibly more serious and less overtly partisan NBC News,
which routinely shares reportage, fact-checking (if you can call it
that), and contributors with its sister network. Comcast brass on
Wednesday told MSNBC staffers that the network's name and peacock logo
might not survive the breakup. The outrageously inflated salaries of the
network's top anchors almost definitely won't.

The move suggests Comcast executives can no longer justify to
shareholders the enormous incomes of "star" hosts such as Rachel Maddow,
Joe Scarborough, and Joy Reid. MSNBC and other Comcast-owned cable
networks continue to make money, but those profits have declined
substantially in recent years. That explains why executives and
investors are eager to rid themselves of the "declining assets."
Comcast's stock price rose in after-hours trading on Tuesday after news
of the decision was leaked to the press. MSNBC's hosts have had a good
run, earning sizable fortunes preaching partisan hysteria to a dwindling
audience of elderly viewers. In the week following this year's election,
the network drew just 65,000 primetime viewers in the coveted 25-54 age
demographic, less than 10 percent of total viewers.

(MSNBC) "This is sort of a very clear, direct statement by Comcast,"
Rich Greenfield, cofounder of the research firm LightShed Partners, told
CNBC, which is also being spun off into the new entity. "They are
exiting the cable network business. This is them saying we don’t want to
be in this business. This is no longer a growth business. It’s going to
be around for a long time, but it’s just no longer a growth business."

Once MSNBC and its sister networks, which include USA, E!, and Oprah
Winfrey's Oxygen, are spun off into a separate entity, new management
will use the occasion to "right-size" the business by firing staff and
slashing salaries. The grotesque spectacle of MSNBC hosts earning seven-
or eight-figure salaries to rant about Hitler to a six-figure
audience—just five figures in "the demo"—will finally end. Some of the
highly paid "talent" may threaten to walk, but where will they go? CNN?
Nope. That network's already started firing staff and slashing
compensation. The gravy train is off the rails, burning in a ditch, and
most Americans could not care less.

Here's a look at some of the ridiculous MSNBC anchor salaries that
executives at the new, yet-to-be-named media company are likely to
decimate.

Rachel Maddow

She somehow suckered NBCUniversal News Group chairman Cesar Conde into
paying her $30 million a year to do one show a week while devoting the
majority of her time to "other projects." She continues to promote
deranged conspiracy theories about Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia
and is being sued for defamation after making "verifiably false"
statements about a Georgia gynecologist who treated immigrants at an ICE
detention facility.

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski

There's nothing they won't say or do in the name of ratings and
self-promotion. The power couple—widely despised at MSNBC for their
bullying, conniving, self-dealing, and hypocrisy—recently went to
Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump, whom they repeatedly denounced during the
campaign as a "racist" and "fascist" in the mold of Adolf Hitler. They
are believed to have secured themselves a "Maddow-esque" compensation
package after Rachel's absurd new contract was announced. Scarborough in
particular has grown increasingly hackish in recent years. "This version
of [Joe] Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever,"
he said, contrary to all available evidence, several weeks before the
president's disastrous debate performance, which forced him to drop out
of the 2024 race. A former GOP congressman who sponsored a resolution in
2000 condemning Al Sharpton for his "vicious verbal anti-Semitic attacks
directed at members of the Jewish faith," Scarborough routinely invites
Sharpton on his show to discuss a range of issues, including
anti-Semitism.

Al Sharpton

The notorious anti-Semite and racial agitator's salary might be
relatively low (on the books), but that doesn't mean he's not
tremendously overpaid. Sharpton, who incited the 1991 Crown Heights
riot, the worst outbreak of anti-Semitic in modern American history,
still gets paid. The Kamala Harris campaign funneled $500,000 in
donations to his nonprofit group, the National Action Network, shortly
before Sharpton conducted a friendly interview with the then-candidate
on his MSNBC weekend show. Sharpton's nonprofit has close ties to MSNBC
president Rashida Jones, who received the National Action Network's
"Chairman's Award" in 2021 and 2024.

Joy Reid

A political liability whom most corporate executives would be eager to
jettison, Reid was promoted in 2020 despite falsely claiming two years
earlier that her old blog was "hacked" after internet sleuths uncovered
an array of homophobic and anti-Semitic posts. Her power at MSNBC has
only grown since then, while her show has become an increasingly
virulent carnival of racial grievance and assorted nonsense. She
interviews "experts" who accuse Republicans of making it "literally
illegal" for black people to vote. She has suggested Republicans "taught
people the word 'inflation'" and recently denounced Latino men for
betraying their race, including their own families, by voting for Trump.

Nicolle Wallace

A former Republican operative who joined the liberal elite upon moving
to New York City and getting paid to denounce Republicans, Wallace is
best known for her credulous promotion of convicted felon Michael
Avenatti. Beloved by mentally ill #Resistance wine moms, Wallace
regularly interviews "experts" who think the September 11 terrorist
attacks were "nothing compared to January 6." Soon after divorcing her
first husband in 2019, the now-52-year-old Wallace announced she was
dating New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt, 41, a frequent guest on
her show. (They're married now.) Schmidt is coproducing a new Netflix
series with Noah Oppenheim, the self-dealing former NBC News president
who allegedly discouraged Ronan Farrow from exposing Harvey Weinstein's
history of sexual violence.

Chris Hayes

Sometimes described by colleagues as "the male Rachel Maddow" without
her talent for reading a teleprompter, Hayes does his best to mimic his
lookalike's sneering pretentiousness and disregard for the facts. He's
also being sued for defamation. When's he not trash-talking the troops
or ranting in support of transgender surgeries for minors, Hayes has
shown a remarkable knack for promoting racially fueled invective on his
show. Last week, for example, he nodded along solemnly as Sherrilyn
Ifill, a former president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, claimed
without evidence that Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, Pete
Hegseth, was "known to be a white supremacist." Even longtime Democratic
operative Michael LaRosa, a former MSNBC producer, said this remark was
over the line. "This shit has to stop," LaRosa wrote. "Conversations and
demonization like this are a big part of the reason we got our asses
kicked."

Stephanie Ruhle

Just as shameless and ambitious as Joy Reid, and almost as much of a
liability, Ruhle sweet-talked the Harris campaign into letting her
conduct the candidate's first solo interview of the campaign. Harris
might as well have been talking to her press secretary. The aging and
formerly attractive "journalist" previously worked at Bloomberg, earning
a reputation for being a notorious flirt who sucked up to CEOs and
jumped around on studio desks in yoga pants like a crazy person. Ruhle,
who's married with kids, reportedly had an intimate relationship with
Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank, during which she flew on Plank's private
jet, offered business advice, and hawked Under Armour shoes on the Today
show—without disclosing the relationship. She was embroiled in a
shareholder lawsuit against the company after the Wall Street Journal
reported on the relationship in 2019.

NBC News


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"John Smyth" <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Good.
> Maybe they will all quit and allow MSNBC to at least attempt to recover
> the trust of the viewers.

Trust? I doubt that.. Tolerate.. maybe.

It would take a long time and established history to regain any trust.

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